Bearings – Rotary bearing – Fluid bearing
Patent
1986-12-17
1988-03-01
Levy, Stuart S.
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Fluid bearing
384100, 384108, 384123, F16C 3206
Patent
active
047282010
ABSTRACT:
A gas bearing designed for instantaneous 5-10 micro inch separation at startup due to regulated entry and activation of rarefield molecular gas particles. This bearing has two opposing bearing faces with carefully matched geometries. One surface having grooves with lands formed between the grooves that are designed for hydrodynamic operation. The other surface being smooth such as an optically flat plane. The lift-off occurs at startup through the friction-energized gas molecules increasing their volume, and forcing the slowly rotating bearing faces apart. To sustain this effect until the bearing interface reaches its normal design speed, a precisely contoured leading edge is formed on each land which sustains a negative molecular gas pressure in the slowly moving bearing interface, so as not to cause any unwarranted cooling or compression of the gas molecules until such speed is reached so that the normal pressurzied gas bearing liftoff has been achieved, causing the gas compression flow to become unregulated and go normal. The precision contouring of that leading edge may be easily and inexpensively created by several high speed chemical, laser, or air driven abrasive means.
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Hannon Thomas R.
Kurt Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Levy Stuart S.
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